K-Pop, Bauhaus, Grimes – those are roughly the self-chosen coordinates within which this Berlin-based duo ranges musically. May the reference to a certain art school from Weimar run dry beyond the will to follow the maxims «form follows function» and «learn from the old master», referring to a couple of phenomena of the absolute now in music culture is much more than a slogan. Cape’s future-focussed present age pop music most likely finds a counterpart both in the hyper-real sounds of the Montreal scene, which with Claire Boucher aka Grimes has found its first international figurehead and secondly in the preposterously commercialized high gloss pop culture of Seoul, which got first dibs on understanding music as a mere accumulation of promotional hooks. Emerging from Berlin while sharply reinterpreting and repositioning this curious melange of influences is one of the most exciting aspects of Cape. (Henning Lahmann / No Fear of Pop)